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A Distant Trumpet (1964)
(TV)
Runtime: 117 min
Country:
USA
Language: English
Synopsis: The last film from
veteran director Raoul Walsh, who was deemed too old to be insured at the time
this was made — Jack Warner himself (the last surviving Warner brother)
posted the bond for his old associate. The result is impressive: a handsome,
intelligent cavalry western, superbly scored by Max Steiner who memorably
worked with Walsh on They Died with Their Boots On and ravishingly photographed
in Panavisioned Technicolor by western old-hand William Clothier. Walsh makes
partial reparation to the hordes of Indians slaughtered in previous westerns by
using subtitles in an attempt to preserve their dignity, nearly 30 years before
Kevin Costner did likewise in Dances with Wolves. The complex military themes,
lifted from Paul Horgan's novel, are well handled, too. What lets down this
fine movie, though, is the casting. Newlyweds Troy Donahue and Suzanne
Pleshette are just too resolutely 1960s in hairstyle and attitude to convince a
viewer that they belong in Walsh's Old West.
Cast: Troy Donahue,
Suzanne Pleshette.
Quality: 9/10 Good quality transfer from ntsc
video to dvd.
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| Quality: |
Good video transfer to dvd |
| Price: |
£15.00 |
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